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Issue: Vol. 1225 No. 1: 5 Jun. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-06-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1225.1.5
Page range: 57–68
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 2

Notes on the genus Allotrichosiphum (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Greenideinae), with the description of one new species from Hong Kong, China

Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China
Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P. R. China Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK
Hemiptera Allotrichosiphum Greenideinae new species China (Hong Kong)

Abstract

The aphid genus Allotrichosiphum is reviewed here. Allotrichosiphum cyclobalanopsidis sp. nov. from Cyclobalanopsis neglecta in Hong Kong, China is described. Keys to the species of Allotrichosiphum worldwide are provided. The type specimens studied are deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, U.K.

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